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Clash bash crash
Published 15 September 2023
A new taller mast at Emley Moor was too little too late.
The Authority’s Stations: West and North Wales
Published 3 August 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: north and west Wales
The Authority’s Stations: Channel Islands
Published 27 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Herm
Another chance to see… regional ITV
Published 21 July 2023
What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question
The Authority’s Stations: North-East Scotland
Published 20 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: northern Scotland
The Authority’s Stations: The Borders
Published 13 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: for the England/Scotland border
The Authority’s Stations: South-West England
Published 6 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: the west country
The Authority’s Stations: Northern Ireland
Published 29 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Strabane and Black Mountain
The Authority’s Stations: East Anglia
Published 22 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Eastern England
The Authority’s Stations: North-East England
Published 15 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Northeastern England
The Authority’s Stations: South Wales and West of England
Published 1 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: west of England and south of Wales
The Authority’s Stations: Central Scotland
Published 25 May 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: lowland Scotland
The Authority’s Stations: The Midlands
Published 11 May 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Midlands region
The Authority’s Stations: introduction
Published 5 May 2023
The first part of a weekly series on the ITV transmitters in 1962
Granada goes to Rochdale
Published 7 April 2023
How a by-election in Lancashire made all elections TV elections
The Authority’s Plans for Channel Four
Published 2 November 2022
Inside the 20-year battle for a fourth channel
All up to the advertisers
Published 29 August 2022
The government has announced it plans to start commercial radio in the UK
Shock at the BBC
Published 20 May 2022
Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: Present and Future Policy on Development
Published 14 February 2022
A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network
The future of television: Their ideas
Published 28 December 2021
Part Ten: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
The future of television: The I.T.A.
Published 26 December 2021
Part Six: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
The ITA transmitter network
Published 5 November 2021
Comparative maps of VHF and UHF coverage from the Independent Television Authority
No Damage So Far, But We Must Learn to Live with Commercial Television
Published 25 October 2021
ITV is here. Will it kill the cinema?
ITV: the Programmes and the Companies
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
The Story of Independent TV
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
A Shared Medium
Published 13 September 2021
It’s time for a fourth channel in the UK. But no more than that, please
Tuning-in to… Grampian
Published 14 May 2021
Grampian is almost here! Find out how to tune in, what to watch and who’s behind the new programmes
Slick – that is the new TV
Published 12 April 2021
It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…
How can they get out of the MESS?
Published 18 December 2020
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
Ship’s siren may be call sign for TTT
Published 30 September 2020
Big promises from Tyne Tees Television in 1958 as they get ready to launch
Commercial radio on way – 60 stations to be opened
Published 28 September 2020
The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971
Yes, commercial T.V. is here
Published 22 September 2020
Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?
Technical operations: the ITV network
Published 14 August 2020
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
The fall of Teledu Cymru
Published 12 August 2020
The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964
Opening day for Channel Nine
Published 31 October 2019
The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television
Why ITV is pulling out all the plugs
Published 24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
A rationalised ITV structure
Published 27 May 2019
The Daily Telegraph has a plan for ITV in 1971: tear it up and start again. It’s nonsense and we’ll tell you why
ITA Colour is coming!
Published 20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
ITV-2
Published 6 May 2019
A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971
Never on a Sunday
Published 17 January 2019
The British cabinet discusses what ITV should be showing on Sunday afternoons in 1955
Sentenced to death
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
They watch your viewing
Published 7 January 2019
The Independent Television Authority took on new powers in 1964. The TVTimes in February 1965 explains what these are and how the ITA is structured
Tory-Weighted Programmers For Britain’s Comm’l TV Spark Rumpus
Published 29 November 2018
The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried